Analyst

Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network. Come join us to create what's next. Let's define tomorrow, together. Description Find your future at United! We're reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be – from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you're joining a global team of 100,000+ connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward. Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world's biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups. Create what's next with us. Let's define tomorrow together. Key Responsibilities: The Senior Analyst - Business & Portfolio Optimization plays a key role in supporting the sourcing, proposal, and governance processes for Corporate Real Estate Planning & Development projects. This role partners with project managers, senior project managers, and cross functional teams to prepare, analyze, and refine sourcing materials in response to RFPs and evolving project requirements. The Senior Analyst ensures sourcing activities are executed with accuracy, transparency, and consistency, contributing directly to operational excellence across design, construction, and professional services procurement. This position is highly detail oriented and hands on, with a focus on data analysis, vendor coordination, documentation rigor, and continuous improvement of sourcing workflows and tools. Proposal Gatekeeping & Support: Participate in all sourcing events including RFP development, bid distribution, proposal intake, and evaluation, ensuring adherence to sourcing guidelines and project requirements. Vendor Coordination: Support vendor management activities, including performance tracking, compliance monitoring, onboarding, and maintaining accurate vendor database records. Contract & Sourcing Execution: Assist in contract reviews and negotiations, including coordinating revisions with vendors and internal stakeholders (e.g. Legal & risk). Ensure compliance with sourcing policies and procedures. Process Improvement & Risk Mitigation: Identifying opportunities to streamline workflows, enhance templates, improve data integrity, and increase sourcing transparency. Performance Metrics: Maintain sourcing documentation and governance artifacts, ensuring version control, audit readiness, and consistency across contracts, proposals, and sourcing templates. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with project teams to gather requirements, clarify scopes, and ensure sourcing timelines and deliverables align with project needs. Note: This is a Chicago-based hybrid role with in-office requirements 50% of the time. This role will also be required to travel up to 30% of the time. Qualifications What's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications): Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Construction Management, or a related field 3+ years of experience in sourcing, vendor management, project management, or large-scale capital project environments Knowledge of construction industry request for proposals (RFPs), construction evaluation criteria, contracting best practices, contract terms, negotiations, and risk management Strong data analysis capabilities Ability to communicate with internal and external stakeholders effectively Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications): PMP, CCM, Six Sigma Knowledge of request for proposals, construction evaluation criteria contracting best practice, delivery method, etc. from an owner's perspective Strong analytical, negotiation and communication skills Demonstrates an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of generative AI tools and effectively leverages them to support research, analysis, content creation, and problem-solving. Apply critical thinking to validate AI-generated outputs while adhering to organizational policies for responsible AI use, data privacy, and security. United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact View email address on click.appcast.io to request accommodation. The base pay range for this role is $81,795.00 to $106,602.00. The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards. medical dental vision life accident & disability parental leave employee assistance program commuter paid holidays paid time off 401(k) flight privileges United Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation, contact View email address on click.appcast.io #J-18808-Ljbffr